Sam explained the plant's sap contains aluminium sulphate, which is the ingredient in "most bug sting remedies ... the plant after stepping on an ant's nest and getting stung around 20 times.

A brain-eating pathogen continues to wreak havoc in the second series of The Last of Us – which is so far-fetched, right?

A phorid fly (left), Pseudacteon cultellatus, about 1 mm long, and a red imported fire ant (right), Solenopsis invicta, about 3 mm long.The fly can lay eggs inside the ant’s head. Fly maggots ...

This sacrifice, known as autothysis, can immobilize or deter predators, effectively protecting the colony at the cost of the individual ant’s life. The opossum is famous for its theatrical defense ...